Editing is the process of making changes to a written work. The term EDIT can be broken down into many different crossword solutions, such as ANNOTATE (8 letters), RECTIFY (7 letters), ADAPT (5 letters), REPHRASE (8 letters), FIX (3 letters), CUT (3 letters), COPY (4 letters), CONDENSE (8 letters), ERASE (5 letters), PRE (3 letters), VET (3 letters), ALTER (5 letters), AMEND (5 letters), EMEND (5 letters), REDACT (6 letters), REVISE (6 letters), REWORK (6 letters), BLUEPENCIL (10 letters), and PAREAPHRASE (11 letters). Each of these terms describes a specific action that can be taken when editing a written work, such as annotating to add notes or comments, rectifying to make corrections, adapting to change for a new purpose, rephrasing to express ideas in different words, fixing to repair errors, cutting to remove parts, copying to duplicate, condensing to reduce length, erasing to delete, pre-vetting to check before publication, altering to modify, amending to add or change, emending to correct, redacting to obscure, revising to improve, reworking to restructure, bluepenciling to censor, and paraphrasing to restate.